RE: I want (a router with) it all!

You have *GOT* to check out M0n0wall and pfSense.

http://m0n0.ch/wall/

http://www.pfsense.com/

http://www.pcengines.ch/wrap.htm

Traffic shaping and PPTP VPN termination server too.

AWESOME open source platforms.

Everything else blows wet chunks by comparison.

Especially the Cisco PIX 501.

"My advice is free and worth every penny!"

-Christopher Erickson
Network Design Engineer
5432 E. Northern Lights Blvd., Suite 529
Anchorage, AK 99508
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]
> On Behalf Of Joshua J. Kugler
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 4:26 PM
> To: aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: I want (a router with) it all!
>
> I've been doing some research on smb routers (office class,
> but good enough
> for putting servers behind), and I've run into the annoying
> "feature ven
> diagram." That is, two or three products that all have most
> of the features
> I want, except for a couple, and those areas of lacking
> features are not
> always the same. So...since I don't have a blog and can't
> invoke the Lazy
> Web <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_web>.
>
> So, here is my list of desired features.
>
> All the standard "broadband router" features. Think your low
> end Linksys or
> Netgear units.
>
> and then the higher-end features:
>
> VPN tunnels (usable with free clients, preferably)
>
> One-to-one NAT
> Mapping external, routable IPs to internal addresses. That
> is, all requests
> to 111.222.333.444 are directed to 192.168.1.55. More than just port
> forwarding.
>
> Ability to define firewall rules on that one-to-one NAT. The
> Linksys unit I
> found seemed to have this, but the Netgear userguide said
> there were no
> firewall rules for this.
>
> "Static" DHCP
> Netgear calls this address reservation, the linksys unit
> didn't seem to have
> it. That is, IP address assignment, via DHCP by the MAC
> address of the
> requester.
>
> Caching DNS
> Netgear seems to do DNS Proxy, I think Linksys does DNS caching
>
> LAN DNS lookup
> Explanation: when a computer gets a DHCP address, it sends a
> client ID, which
> is the name of the computer. I want to be able to do an NS
> lookup on this
> name and get back the client's IP. I know that a WRT54G I
> used once did
> this, but they don't seem to say in the specs whether or not
> a model supports
> it.
>
> Low price, preferably. Probably looking at Linksys or
> Netgear. Maybe Cisco,
> but I don't know if we have that kind of money at the moment.
>
> Hmm...should I just by a WRT54G and put OpenWRT or dd-wrt on
> it? :) Any
> recommendations when it comes to hardware reliability?
>
> j
>
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